Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:37:35 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: hometeam@techpower.net (hometeam) Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP problem Message-ID: <199903261537.JAA10009@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903261011220.2950-100000@techpower.net> from hometeam at "Mar 26, 99 10:31:00 am"
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In a previous message, hometeam said: > Sounds more like a reverse lookup dns problem or a timing out connection to the dns server problem. > Get info like the site she is connecting to sounds like a routing problem > to me. When connecting to this site has she tryed the ip address in place > of the site name ? what is the freebsd setup? what subnet she running > how many ip's? she using natd ? ...Your question here seems really vague. > > 14400 modem is rather slow on the busy times of the day ...The internet > slows to a crawl sometimes...MS last week was slow with all the traffic > for the new ie5. > > No offence but this is a very simple problem. You just telnet in and look > around ...If she can not supply you with the info of her system. > It sounds like she has came to you for help and trust you ...I am sure she > would not mind you taking a look around ? > > Or bring the info here and I bet someone can help. > > > > > On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > A friend of mine has the following problem: when trying a telnet to > > a (certain?) remote host, FreeBSD takes almost three minutes, while > > a NT from the same subnet takes less than thirty. If this problem > > cannot be solved, there is a great chance of FreeBSD being dumped in > > this place. > > > > I suspect this can be solved just by tweaking the TCP/IP options in > > the FreeBSD box, but since I have never personally experienced this > > kind of problem, I don't recall what are the prime suspects here. > > > > What are the knobs she should try tweaking? Also, what kind of > > information she could collect to track this problem? I'll be asking > > her to give me a tcpdump of both the FreeBSD and the NT box telnet > > connection, but I'm not sure what else to ask for. > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > > -- > > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > > dcs@newsguy.com > > dcs@freebsd.org > > > > "What kind of psychologist laughs at her patients?" > > "I don't laugh at all of them." > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- "The governments of proper countries are usually on holidays on weekends." --Soviet spokesman Eugene Pozdnayakov, stretching to explain why his government delayed reporting the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster to the rest of the world in April, 1986. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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